This is a longer-term up­date on the state of my home serv­er. You can read more about it in these 1 2 3 4 post­s.

What's the hardware nowadays?

• Radxa Ze­ro: 4-­core 4GB RAM, 32GB eMMC
• 2 1TB HDD over USB
• 100Mbps eth­er­net wired con­nec­tion to the router

And ... so far, it's more than enough. No strain :-)

What is it running?

• Tailscale for VPN so I can ac­cess it from ev­ery­where
• A num­ber of dock­er­ized ser­vices
  • Dashy to pro­­vide a nice fron­­tend to all the ser­vices
  • Tran­s­mis­­sion To down­load stuff
  • Medusa To tell Tran­s­mis­­sion what stuff to down­load
  • FreshRSS To read RSS feeds
  • Gitea For code
  • Dim To watch the down­load­­ed stuff
• Home as­sis­tant To give me an API for home au­to­ma­tion stuff
• Ig­nite for VMs
  • faasd to run "lam­b­­das" for this site
• webfsd for stat­ic sites

Al­so back­ups via restic and oth­er ran­dom things. I have a sep­a­rate oc­to­print serv­er but I may move it here.

Really, it runs all that?

Yeah, and it works just fine. Of course this is most­ly be­cause I am the on­ly re­al user, but hey, it work­s.

Anything else you would want to run?

• Maybe some sort of push no­ti­fi­ca­tion thingie so I can no­ti­fy my phone if there's a prob­lem
• Maybe grafana? But don't care enough yet.

Was it worth it?

I could run all this on cloud­s, but the hard­ware I am us­ing would cost maybe 100 dol­lars, and month­ly fees for ser­vices will quick­ly reach that amount and sur­pass it. I am al­ready pay­ing for the band­width any­way.

OTOH I have spent maybe 50 or 60 hours set­ting this up and if I look at my hourly rates ... ick.

Anything weird?

I re­al­ly don't un­der­stand oth­er peo­ple's home­lab­s, they seem wild­ly over­pow­ered.